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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (March 5, 1879 – 16 March1963) was a British economist and social reformer.

WilliamBeveridge, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil Service, was born in Bengal, India, on 5th March 1879.

Beveridge saw full employment (which he defined as unemployment of no more than 3%) as the pivot of the social welfare programme he expressed in the 1942Beveridge Report, and Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) expressed how this goal might be gained.

William Paterson [Parents] was born in 1845 in Muirhouses,Cambusnethan.

Janet Beveridge was born on 1 Jan 1852 in Morningside,Cambusnethan.

Jeanie Beveridge was born on 29 Mar 1874 in Cambusnethan.

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Beveridge saw full employment (which he defined as unemplyment of no more than 3%) as the pivot of the social welfare programme he expressed in the 1942Beveridge Report, and Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) expressed how this goal might be gained.

Beveridge was created Baron Beveridge of Tuggal and eventually became leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords.

WilliamBeveridge, the eldest son of a judge in the India n civil service, was born in Bengal, India, on 5th March 1879.

William Henry Beveridge (March 5,1879-1963) was a British economist and social reformer.

WilliamBeveridge, the eldest son of a judge in the Indiann civil service, was born in Bengal, India, on 5th March 1879.

In 1909Beveridge was appointed Director of Labour Exchanges; his ideas influenced David Lloyd George and led to the passing of the 1911 National Insurance Act.

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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (March 5, 1879 &ndash; 16 March1963) was a British economist (An expert in the science of economics) and social reformer.

Beveridge became interested in the social services (An organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society) and wrote about the subject for the Morning Post (additional info and facts about Morning Post) newspaper.

The impetus behind Beveridge's thinking was social justice (additional info and facts about social justice), and the creation of an ideal new society after the war.

WilliamBeveridge was born in 1879 and he became a social worker in the East End of London in 1903.

Since Beveridge and others believed the birth rate was falling and thus the country would, in the long term, suffer from this decline, his ideas were also coloured by a desire to encourage women to have children and not to penalise them for so doing.

Beveridge was not the first to raise the questions of children's allowances : Rowntree himself and others had advocated their introduction before the War and even in the period 1940-1941, an inter-Party group was formed to accelerate their introduction.

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William was the first son of Samuel Smith and Elizabeth Beveridge and was born c1823 in the parish of Irvine.

By 1848, William and Janet and their growing family had moved to the nearby town of Kilwinning, where in 1851 they were staying at the Double Row at Eglinton Ironworks, a very large industrial enterprise.

William was born in 1863, the fourth child of Samuel Smith and Marion Hunter.

Lord Beveridge was so highly influenced by the Fabian Society socialists - in particular by Beatrice Potter Webb, with whom he workedon the 1909 Poor Laws report - that he could readily be considered one of their number.

Beveridge saw full employment (which he defined as unemployment of no more than 3%) as the pivot of the social welfare programme heexpressed in the 1942Beveridge Report, and Full Employment in a Free Society (1944) expressed how this goal might begained.

WilliamBeveridge was born in Bengal, India, on March 5, 1879, the son of an Englishman employed in the Indian civil service.

Beveridge became director of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1919, and when he left in 1937 to become master of University College, Oxford, the London School had a worldwide reputation.

Beveridge was elected member of Parliament for Berwick in 1944 but was defeated in the general election less than a year later.

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William Henry Beveridge (1879-1963) was a British economist and social reformer.

He joined the Board of Trade[?] in 1908, now considered to be the country's leading authority on unemployment insurance and helped organize the implementation of the national system of labour exchanges[?].

In 'Bhadoon' they had clouds price of grain was enormous and with difficulty it could be and streets, and the native governments rendered no assistance to Children were left to go astray and find their sustenance in.

When I started working with Beveridge, I soon found that, although he was ruthless at getting at the facts and drove me as hard as he drove himself, he had certain ingrained views about unemployment, still derived from the historic study he had made in 1909.

Beveridge was the first major figure to subject the problem to serious analysis, based partly on the figures he was able to obtain through the Poor Law Commission and partly through his characteristically humane work at Toynbee Hall in East London, where both he and, later, Attlee first became aware of the 'social problem'.

The Beveridge scheme may ultimately be adopted in the somewhat mutilated form, but it is something of an achievement even to be debating such a thing in the middle of a desperate war in which we are still fighting for survival.

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The Labour Gazette, December 1942, pages: 1406-1410(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)

Sir WilliamBeveridge's Report suggests that the existing provisions for social security require to be unified and their administration to be simplified so that certain present deficiencies, anomalies and lack of co-ordination may be removed.

As regards unification Sir WilliamBeveridge suggests that there should be a Ministry of Social Security which would take over the duties of present Government Departments in respect of health, pensions and unemployment insurance; the work of the Assistance Board; and the duties of local government authorities in respect of public assistance.

In addition, Sir WilliamBeveridge proposes to bring into pensions insurance all other persons not at present included, and for these persons the basic pension of 14/or 24/- will start to be paid ten years after the beginning of the scheme, i.e.

Beveridge, the son of a British civil servant in India, was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.

The character of the habitant, or French-Canadian farmer and backwoodsman, is reflected in the poems of William Henry Drummond.

The English poet William Henry Davies, who wandered across the United States and Canada for much of his youth as a peddler and a tramp, gained a wide audience for lyrics that have a force, simplicity, and charm uncharacteristic of the poetry of most of his contemporaries.

A civil servant, he acted as Lloyd George's lieutenant in the social legislation of the Liberal government before World War I. His Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (1942), known as the Beveridge Report, formed the basis of the welfare state in Britain.

Beveridge was born in Rangpur, Bengal, and was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford University.

The Beveridge report proposes a far-reaching series of changes designed to provide a financial safety net to ensure a "freedom from want" after the war is over.

The architect of the report, economist Sir WilliamBeveridge, drew on advice from various government departments including the Home Office, Ministry of Labour and National Service, the Ministry of Pensions, the Ministry of Health and the Treasury.

The Beveridge Report aimed to provide a universal social insurance scheme covering everything from unemployment to sickness and family allowances.

Lord Beveridge was so highly influenced by the Fabian Socialists - in particular by Beatrice Potter Webb, with whom he worked on the 1909 Poor Laws report - that he could readily be counted among them.

In short, the Beveridge Report outlined the construction of the modern welfare state - the culmination of the Fabians' project.

Beveridge Report Website at Dept. of Social Security, UK Beveridge Biography at National Health Services, UK Beveridge Bio at BBC

Of the permanent value of Beveridge's work there can be no greater evidence than that to-day it is quoted all the world over, and not only are Anglicans proud of the bishop of St. Asaph, but Catholics and Protestants, Westerns and Easterns alike quote him as an authority.

The reader will be interested to know that the greatest English scholars of his day assisted Bishop Beveridge in his work, among whom was John Pearson, the defender of the Ignatian Epistles.

William Lambert, The Canons of the First Four General Councils of the Church and those of the Early Greek Synods (London, s.d.

WilliamBeveridge, D.D., Lord Bishop of St. Asaph: Containing all his sermons, as we...

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In the war years, memories of the poverty and unemployment of the Depression inspired many people to propose new social welfare policies that would soften the effects of severe economic problems in the future.

Beveridge's report received world-wide recognition upon its release, and served as a blueprint for progressive social policy-making around the world:

In addition to studying under Beveridge, Marsh had significant contact with the International Labour Organization in the war years when the organization's headquarters were temporarily moved from Geneva to Montreal.

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345. Harrod to William Beveridge, 1 February 1934(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)

Harrod to WilliamBeveridge, 1 February 1934 [a]

Beveridge thanked Harrod for his letter on 2 February 1934 (in Beveridge IIb/33).